Sponsored by the CIC Materials Chemistry Division

The Award for Research Excellence in Materials Chemistry is presented to a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant who has made an outstanding contribution to materials chemistry while working in Canada.

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The 2025 winner of the Award for Research Excellence in Materials Chemistry is:

Matthew J. Harrington
 McGill University
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Matthew Harrington is Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Green Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at McGill University, as well as co-director of the McGill Institute of Advanced Materials (MIAM) and director of the McGill Chemistry Characterization (MC2) facility. He received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of California, Santa Barbara in the lab of J. Herbert Waite. This was followed by a Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in the Department of Biomaterials, where he was later a research group leader from 2010 until 2017. His research is focused on understanding biochemical structure–property relationships in the function and formation of biological materials and applying extracted design principles for the development and sustainable production of bio-inspired materials.

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Past Winners

2024

Dwight Seferos

University of Toronto
Society: CSC
2023

Pavle V. Radovanovic, MCIC

University of Waterloo
Society: CSC
2022

Muralee Murugesu, MCIC

University of Ottawa
Society: CSC
2021

Venkataraman Thangadurai, MCIC

University of Calgary
Society: CSC
2020

Curtis P. Berlinguette

The University of British Columbia
Society: CSC
2019

Tomislav Friščić

McGill University
Society: CSC
2018

Xueliang (Andy) Sun

Western University
Society: CSC
2017

Jonathan Veinot

University of Alberta
Society: CSC
2016

Mark MacLachlan

University of British Columbia
Society: CSC
2015

Dmitrii F. Perepichka

McGill University
Society: CSC
2014

Federico Rosei

Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS)
Society: CSC
2013

Alex Adronov

McMaster University
Society: CSC